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A place to read and post guides to using and enjoying Lemmy.

Examples: Guides to Lemmy subscriptions, tips about mobile clients, how to find remote communities etc.

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Set sort type to top 6 hours (self.lemmyguides)

submitted 1 year ago by 1984 to c/lemmyguides

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Another good tip for folks:

Set your Settings -> Sort Type to top 6 hours:

This is what works best to get updated content.

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[–] 1984 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it makes a world of difference. I think the default is Hot but it becomes stale after a while. Currently I switch between Top 6 Hours and Top 12 Hours during the day, and it feels like I'm seeing everything new.

What client are you using? I've been using Liftoff and Jerboa for a bit here.

[–] mayo 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm actually a desktop user 100% of the time.

[–] 1984 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah ok. You are using the Lemmy web interface then?

How do you like it? I didn't like the tiny buttons and the general look, but I know there are themes that can be installed on the server by the admin.

[–] mayo 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm using the dark theme. I like how it looks, but I think the UI needs improvement. When I tried old.lemmy I find found learning new things about the site that I hadn't seen before in the default layout.

[–] 1984 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I hope there comes more themes. Should not be difficult to install either for the instance admin. I think people just usually use the mobile apps so it's not something that is requested often.

[–] 1984 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We could ask to install these if there is an interest?

https://github.com/2xx04/lemmy-ui-themes

[–] mrmanager 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just learned about Voyager also, could be nice if you like to use a web browser:

https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.today/all

[–] mayo 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think my favourite browser one is old.lemmy. Voyager is too new age maybe? My favourite web design is craigslist

[–] mrmanager 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah there is something to be said for the fast and functional style. I don't know if you read Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com) but it has also stayed with it's traditional look through the years, when every other website embraced "modern" design. And their users love it.